California - Point Vicente Lighthouse

The Point Vicente Lighthouse was built in 1926 and is located at Rancho Palos Verdes, west of Long Beach, California. This lighthouse towers more than 65 feet above a cliff that drops more than 100 feet straight down to the Pacific Ocean. The classic masonry tower holds a 1.1 million candlepower beacon that can be seen from up to 20 miles out to sea.
Over the years keepers and visitors claim to have seen a lady ghost wandering the grounds around the lighthouse. Perhaps she is still waiting for her lover who drowned in a shipwreck off the point.          Or perhaps she is a vision created by slight imperfections in the third-order Fresnel lens that refracts light in a ghostly confusion of arcs as it rotates in the lantern room above. If you visit the lighthouse at night when there is a light fog, you can decide for yourself.
At the time of my visit in 1999 this was an active light. The U.S. Coast Guard opened the lighthouse for tours but only by special arrangement.